The future of work has been foretold
If you work at a technology company you could be forgiven for thinking that all offices are slowly transforming into one big futuristic playground. Whether you’re with a startup in a co-working space...
View Article5050tech Challenge boosting UK women in tech
It would be hard to tell that there are just as many men as women in the UK by looking at the tech sector. Women currently occupy just 17% of tech jobs. Doteveryone, a new organization led by Martha...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Tools For Tracking Employee Morale
If your team is habitually late to work, revising their LinkedIn profiles, infighting or just seem to be walking under their own personal rainclouds, you’ve got a morale problem on your hands. You’re...
View ArticleDrafting a Maternity Leave Policy: 5 things you should know
Maternity leave policies in the United States have come a long way from the 1960s when working mothers were considered temporarily disabled under state law. Women now occupy almost half of the...
View ArticleSeparating cult from culture
You know what to expect from a headline like this. You’ll be introduced to some brainwashed characters displaying cultish behavior. After a breathless description of groupthink, sleepless vigils and...
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How To Build Your First Employee Referral Program
The best thing about starting an employee referral program is that you can be confident that they work. Candidate referrals have stood the test of time as the number one hiring source. We can...
View Article5 reasons you need an official paternity leave policy
While the struggle for statutory maternity leave has been making visible progress in recent years, efforts to deliver laws on paternity leave are still in their infancy. There are paternity leave...
View ArticleLost lessons from the invention of the interview
Among Thomas Alva Edison’s lesser known inventions was the modern job interview. The wizard of the original Menlo Park (New Jersey, not California) whose prodigious spree of invention and...
View ArticleFresh Ideas for your Employee Referral Program
If you don’t have a process for collecting candidate referrals, here’s how you can build one in five steps. If you do have an employee referral program but it’s underperforming, we’ve written up four...
View Article3 reasons to get a short-term disability policy
A quarter of all working Americans now in their 20s will suffer a period of short-term disability before they retire. A worrying number of them don’t realize this and therefore, have not planned for...
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Employee Engagement Strategies That Work
Low employee engagement is a global problem. Right now, seven out of ten employees in the US drag their feet to work. This number is even higher around the world. A team of clockwatchers is fatal to a...
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How to post jobs on LinkedIn with Workable
Social and professional networks are powerful tools for harnessing your full hiring potential. The downside is that having multiple accounts can be confusing and take up time. By integrating LinkedIn...
View ArticleDie Hard: The Troubled History of the Resume
It was the early 1980s, there was a former matinee idol in the White House and the fax machine had yet to disturb the peace of office life but the resume was already being written off. The cold war was...
View Article2016 Social Recruitment Trends Forecast
Social recruitment seems to have almost slavishly followed the stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle. We’ve trekked over the “peak of inflated expectations” and waded through the “trough of...
View ArticleHR terms: the plain-spoken glossary
We’ve been arguing for a while now that language matters in recruitment (and HR in general). We will keep doing so. To a casual observer it’s pretty obvious that we should have reached “peak jargon” by...
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5 alternatives to the same old resume
Outdated, suboptimal, dysfunctional are just a few of the words readily associated with resumes. We’ve been in an unhappy relationship with the resume for most of our working lives (or all of them if...
View Article6 best interview questions for employers: Alternatives to cliched questions
Smart interview questions can help interviewers make smart hiring decisions but they have a shelf life. There’s no need to buy into the notion that interview preparation is an arms race between...
View ArticleEU data protection directive: What employers need to know
If your company is based in the European Union you will have found yourself thinking more and more about data and harbours. Every time you consider adopting a new app to manage your business, you will...
View ArticleStand By Me: Employee Retention Strategies From The Pros
Most companies realize when they hire someone that it’s not a solemn vow to be together forever. The generation of company men and women who spent the bulk of their working lives at one company has...
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Lessons from a distributed team
Like a lot of its peers Workable began life as a fully distributed team. The two founders, Nikos Moraitakis and Spyros Magiatis worked from their respective homes in Athens, Greece. Their first...
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